HAVANA, Cuba, April 15 (acn) Cuban musicians have been invited to the 3rd Congress on Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean, to be held in Santiago de los Caballeros, the Dominican Republic.
The event, the main theme of which will be The Bolero in Caribbean
Culture and its Universal Projection, will begin on Friday and will extend until Sunday, April 19, at the city’s León Jimenez Center, with the participation of countries from The Americas, Europe and other continents.
The largest delegation will come from Latin America and the Caribbean, with creators from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Chile, among other countries.
Cubans César Portillo de la Luz, Omara Portuondo, Martha Valdés, Pablo Milanés and José Loyola have been invited to the Congress, and the participation of José Feliciano and Danny Rivera from Puerto Rico, and Mexicans Armando Manzanero, Marco Antonio Muñiz and Rafael Basurto (leading voice of Los Panchos Trio), are also expected.
The meeting will include a theoretical section as well as the artistic, and intends to validate the bolero as the genre that has adapted the most to modern times, by combining it with rhythms like jazz, el son and salsa.
The Congress has been organized by the Institute for Caribbean Studies, the State Secretariat for Culture, and the Eduardo León Jiménez Cultural center, for the purpose of assessing the cultural impact of the bolero in cinema, literature, visual arts and theater, as well as in other
spheres.
(Validarán impacto del bolero en la música del Caribe María Elana Balán)
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